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BENJAMIN JOHNSON (c. 1665-1742)

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Originally appearing in Volume V15, Page 462 of the 1911 Encyclopedia Britannica.
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BENJAMIN
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JOHNSON (c. 1665-1742)  ,
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English actor, was first a
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scene painter, then acted in the provinces, and appeared in
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London in 1695 at
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Drury
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Lane after
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Betterton's defection . He was the
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original
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Captain
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Driver in Oronooko (1696), Captain Fireball in
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Farquhar's
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Sir Harry Wildair (1701),
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Sable in
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Steele's Funeral (1702), &c.; as the First Gravedigger in
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Hamlet and in several characters in the plays of
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Ben
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Jonson he was particularly
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good . He succeeded, also, to
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Thomas
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Doggett's roles .

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